It's about 100km as the crow flies from Kilkenny to Killarney, and we set our Garmin to shortest distance so that it would take us the interesting back roads rather than go an extra distance looking for faster main roads. This was a good strategy, and we had an interesting drive which, with stops, took us almost all day.
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The largest town we went through was Tipperary. But several other interesting places attracted our attention on the way included Cashel (which means ringfort) whose strongest feature is a spectacular tower and cathedral atop a huge limestone rock. Half a millenium before these were constructed, in pagan times, Saint Patrick preached on the rock. The Queen visited here on her only ever State visit to Ireland in 2011.
Other distractions for us on this drive were Emly (a cute little town that we chose for a break) and Kanturk (where a splendid unexpected castle with an interesting history appeared out of the blue).
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Our Garmin couldn't avoid the N72 as the shortest way into Killarney for the last 20km or so of the journey.
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